Noam Chomsky

A Life of Dissent

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by Robert F. Barsky

MIT Press

Due/Published September 1998, 256 pages, paper

ISBN 0262522551

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This biography describes the intellectual and political milieus that helped shape Noam Chomsky, and presents, as well, an engaging political history of the last several decades, including such events as the Spanish Civil War, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the march on the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War. The book highlights Chomsky's views on the uses and misuses of the university as an institution, his assessment of useful political engagement, and his doubts about postmodernism. Because Chomsky is given ample space to articulate his views on many of the major issues relating to his work, both linguistic and political, this books reads like the autobiography that Chomsky says he will never write.